This collection contains research papers and notes compiled by Dr. Foy Lisenby of Conway, Arkansas. Until his retirement in 1994, Dr. Lisenby was professor of history at the University of Central Arkansas.
A native of Tennessee, Lisenby received his Ph.D. degree from Vanderbilt in 1962. He joined the faculty at Arkansas State Teachers College (now UCA) the same year. In 1994, Lisenby published a biography of former Arkansas Governor Charles Hillman Brough (University of Arkansas Press). Dr. Lisenby also conducted considerable research on the history of Arkansas’ image problem.
Box 1
File 1A- Arkansas Democrat Gazette’s River Valley and Ozark Edition “History’s Cartoonist” on Foy Lisenby, February 2002
File 1B- Miscellaneous Foy Lisenby Art
File 1C- Cartoons by Dr. Foy Lisenby depicting UCA
File 2 – Governor Charles H. Brough correspondence, 1895-1900
File 3 – Governor Charles H. Brough correspondence, 1901-1905
File 4 – Governor Charles H. Brough correspondence, 1906-1909
File 5 – Governor Charles H. Brough correspondence, 1910-1912
File 6 – Governor Charles H. Brough correspondence, 1913
File 7 – Governor Charles H. Brough correspondence, 1914
File 8 – Governor Charles H. Brough correspondence, 1915
File 9 – Governor Charles H. Brough correspondence, 1916
File 10- Governor Charles H. Brough correspondence, 1917
File 11- Governor Charles H. Brough correspondence, 1918
File 12- Governor Charles H. Brough correspondence, 1919
File 13- Governor Charles H. Brough correspondence, 1920
File 14- Governor Charles H. Brough correspondence, 1921
File 15- Governor Charles H. Brough correspondence, 1922
File 16- Governor Charles H. Brough correspondence, 1923
File 17- Governor Charles H. Brough correspondence, 1924
File 18- Governor Charles H. Brough correspondence, 1925
File 19- Governor Charles H. Brough correspondence, 1926
File 20- Governor Charles H. Brough correspondence, 1927
File 21- Governor Charles H. Brough correspondence, January-May 1928
File 22- Governor Charles H. Brough correspondence, June-September 1928
File 23- Governor Charles H. Brough correspondence, October-December 1928
File 24- Governor Charles H. Brough correspondence, January-March 1929
File 25- Governor Charles H. Brough correspondence, April-November 1929
File 26- Governor Charles H. Brough correspondence, 1931
File 27- Governor Charles H. Brough correspondence, January-June 1932
File 28- Governor Charles H. Brough correspondence, July-December 1932
File 29- Governor Charles H. Brough correspondence, 1933
File 30- Governor Charles H. Brough correspondence, 1934
File 31- Governor Charles H. Brough correspondence, 1935
File 32- Governor Charles H. Brough correspondence, undated
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Box 2
File 1 – Brough campaigns, 1916, 1918, 1928, 1933
File 2 – Elaine Race Riots and Brough
File 3 – Southern Sociological Congress materials
File 4 – Arkansas Advancement Association Materials
File 5 – Arkansas Corporation Commission Materials
File 6 – Dealings with H.L. Menchen
File 7 – Writings of Mr. Ralph W. Widener
File 8 – Family and personal materials on Brough
File 9 – 1917 Legislation and Brough
File 10- Prohibition and Brough
File 11- Brough’s Governorship
File 12- Brough newspaper clippings
File 13A- Brough and Conway and Faulkner County
File 13B- Brough as President of Central Baptist College
File 14- Charles H. Brough as Historian
File 15- Writings of Charles H. Brough
File 16- Brough speeches, 1901-1918
File 17- Brough speeches, 1919-1931
File 18- Brough on VA / DC Boundary Line Commission
File 19- Ms. Lisenby on Brough (partial)
File 20- Data on “Progressivism”
File 21- Brough biography data
File 22- Brough Book, Faculty Research Project, 1984-1985
File 23- Miscellaneous information on Brough
File 24- Lisenby’s Note Cards regarding Arkansas, it’s History, it’s Image and Governor Brough
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Box 3
File 1 – Arkansas Conference of Social Work (copies of agendas)
File 2 – Arkansas Conference on Charities and Correction
File 3 – Education in Negro Schools
File 4 – Arkansas History data
File 5 – Winthrop Rockefeller materials
File 6 – Arkansas Times, articles portraying Arkansas’ image
File 7 – Miscellaneous data about Arkansas and Arkansas’ image
File 8 – News clippings and cartoons depicting Arkansas’ image
File 9 – News clippings about Arkansas’ image, 1920-1929
File 10- News clippings about Arkansas’ image, 1930-1939
File 11- News clippings about Arkansas’ image, 1940-1949
File 12- News clippings about Arkansas’ image, 1960-1969
File 13- News clippings about Arkansas’ image, 1970-1979
File 14- More miscellaneous data about Arkansas’ image
File 15- Memorable Mugs, by Foy Lisenby
File 16- Log Cabin Democrat, newspaper article “Unique history book features cartoons by local artists” this articles features Foy Lisenby and Jerry Poole, 2006
File 17 - Booklet - "Terse Verse II: From a Tard Bard" by Foy Lisenby, 2007
File 18- Drawings by Foy Lisenby (17 pages)
Item 1 – Scrapbook - of Newspaper Clippings, cartoons
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